Dante & the Unorthodox: The Aesthetics of TransgressionJames L. Miller Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press, 2005 M04 22 - 566 páginas During his lifetime, Dante was condemned as corrupt and banned from Florence on pain of death. But in 1329, eight years after his death, he was again viciously condemned—this time as a heretic and false prophet—by Friar Guido Vernani. From Vernani’s inquisitorial viewpoint, the author of the Commedia “seduced” his readers by offering them “a vessel of demonic poison” mixed with poetic fantasies designed to destroy the “healthful truth” of Catholicism. Thanks to such pious vituperations, a sulphurous fume of unorthodoxy has persistently clung to the mantle of Dante’s poetic fame. The primary critical purpose of Dante & the Unorthodox is to examine the aesthetic impulses behind the theological and political reasons for Dante’s allegory of mid-life divergence from the papally prescribed “way of salvation.” Marking the septicentennial of his exile, the book’s eighteen critical essays, three excerpts from an allegorical drama, and a portfolio of fourteen contemporary artworks address the issue of the poet’s conflicted relation to orthodoxy. By bringing the unorthodox out of the realm of “secret things,” by uncensoring them at every turn, Dante dared to oppose the censorious regime of Latin Christianity with a transgressive zeal more threatening to papal authority than the demonic hostility feared by Friar Vernani. |
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... Moving Visual Thinking " : Dante , Brakhage , and the Works of Energeia R. Bruce Elder . . . 394 Driftworks , Pulseworks , Lightworks : The Letter to Dr. Henderson R. Bruce Elder ... 450 PART VI - Trasmodar Calling Dante : An Exhibition ...
... move more shocking than David's dance before the Ark , a trajectory of flaming impropriety guaranteed to explode the statute of limitations imposed on fallen humanity by the dogmatic guardians of the Faith ? It is just such an ...
... controversial issue which has long perplexed readers concerned with the efficacy of prayer . Can the good will of readers who pray for Virgil's salvation move Heaven to har- row his lost soul , to carry it over the INTRODUCTION 7.
... moved heavenwards by the prayerful intercessions of Mary , Lucy , and Beatrice ? Countering King's argument that the poet pro- vides us with strong - if unorthodox - theological grounds for hoping that Virgil might eventually be saved ...
... moves swiftly through hellish chaos and purgatorial fire towards a brief electrifying glimpse of heaven . While ... moving pictures to imi- tate the dynamics of visual thinking . Part 5 concludes with a letter Elder wrote in 1991 ...
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Part IITrasmutar | 121 |
Part IIITrasumanar | 249 |
Part IVTraslatar | 327 |
Part VTralucere | 367 |
Part VITrasmodar | 489 |
Notes on Contributors | 531 |
Index | 535 |